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A U.S. national arrested connected supplier charges successful Moscow amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions over Ukraine appeared successful tribunal connected Monday.
Robert Woodland Romanov is facing charges of trafficking ample amounts of forbidden narcotics arsenic portion of an organized group — a criminal discourtesy punishable by up to 20 years successful prison. He was remanded into custody successful January, and nan proceedings began successful nan Ostankino District Court successful precocious March. A caller tribunal proceeding is scheduled for adjacent week.
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In January, nan U.S. State Department said it was alert of reports of nan caller detention of a U.S. national and noted that it "has nary greater privilege than nan information and information of U.S. citizens overseas," but refrained from further comment, citing privateness considerations. The U.S. Embassy successful Moscow issued a akin connection astatine nan time.
A position of Red Square pinch nan Historical Museum, right, and nan Kremlin Towers successful nan background, successful Moscow, Russia, connected April 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
Russian media noted that nan sanction of nan accused matches that of a U.S. national interviewed by nan celebrated regular Komsomolskaya Pravda successful 2020.
In nan interview, nan man said that he was calved successful nan Perm region successful nan Ural Mountains successful 1991 and was adopted by an American mates erstwhile he was two. He said that he traveled to Russia to find his Russian mother and yet met her successful a TV show successful Moscow.
The man told Komsomolskaya Pravda that he liked surviving successful Russia and decided to move there. The newspaper reported that he settled successful nan municipality of Dolgoprudny conscionable extracurricular Moscow and was moving arsenic an English coach astatine a section school.
Arrests of Americans successful Russia person go progressively communal arsenic relations betwixt Moscow and Washington descend to Cold War lows. Washington accuses Moscow of targeting its citizens and utilizing them arsenic governmental bargaining chips, but Russian officials insist they each collapsed nan law.
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Some person been exchanged for Russians held successful nan U.S., while for others, nan prospects of being released successful a switch are little clear.
